Robert Falcone, Author at Unit42

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xHunt Campaign: Newly Discovered Backdoors Using Deleted Email Drafts and DNS Tunneling for Command and Control

By Robert Falcone
November 9, 2020 at 12:00 AM

12 min. read

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Thanos Ransomware: Destructive Variant Targeting State-Run Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa

By Robert Falcone
September 4, 2020 at 6:00 AM

13 min. read

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Threat Assessment: WastedLocker Ransomware Activities

By Alex Hinchliffe, Doel Santos, Adrian McCabe and Robert Falcone
July 30, 2020 at 6:00 AM

4 min. read

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OilRig Targets Middle Eastern Telecommunications Organization and Adds Novel C2 Channel with Steganography to Its Inventory

By Robert Falcone
July 22, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Updated BackConfig Malware Targeting Government and Military Organizations in South Asia

By Alex Hinchliffe and Robert Falcone
May 11, 2020 at 9:30 PM

16 min. read

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APT41 Using New Speculoos Backdoor to Target Organizations Globally

By Bryan Lee, Robert Falcone and Jen Miller-Osborn
April 13, 2020 at 5:45 PM

7 min. read

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Molerats Delivers Spark Backdoor to Government and Telecommunications Organizations

By Robert Falcone, Bryan Lee and Alex Hinchliffe
March 3, 2020 at 6:00 AM

28 min. read

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Actors Still Exploiting SharePoint Vulnerability to Attack Middle East Government Organizations

By Robert Falcone
February 3, 2020 at 6:00 AM

13 min. read

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xHunt Campaign: New Watering Hole Identified for Credential Harvesting

By Brittany Barbehenn and Robert Falcone
January 27, 2020 at 6:00 PM

7 min. read

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xHunt Campaign: xHunt Actor’s Cheat Sheet

By Robert Falcone
December 4, 2019 at 8:00 PM

19 min. read

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xHunt Campaign: New PowerShell Backdoor Blocked Through DNS Tunnel Detection

By Robert Falcone and Brittany Barbehenn
October 10, 2019 at 5:00 AM

11 min. read

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xHunt Campaign: Attacks on Kuwait Shipping and Transportation Organizations

By Robert Falcone and Brittany Barbehenn
September 23, 2019 at 6:00 AM

22 min. read

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Emissary Panda Attacks Middle East Government SharePoint Servers

By Robert Falcone and Tom Lancaster
May 28, 2019 at 6:00 AM

13 min. read

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Behind the Scenes with OilRig

By Bryan Lee and Robert Falcone
April 30, 2019 at 6:00 AM

24 min. read

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Aggah Campaign: Bit.ly, BlogSpot, and Pastebin Used for C2 in Large Scale Campaign

By Robert Falcone and Brittany Barbehenn
April 17, 2019 at 12:01 AM

14 min. read

Posts created by: Robert Falcone

xHunt Campaign: Newly Discovered Backdoors Using Deleted Email Drafts and DNS Tunneling for Command and Control

Thanos Ransomware: Destructive Variant Targeting State-Run Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa

Threat Assessment: WastedLocker Ransomware Activities

OilRig Targets Middle Eastern Telecommunications Organization and Adds Novel C2 Channel with Steganography to Its Inventory

Updated BackConfig Malware Targeting Government and Military Organizations in South Asia

APT41 Using New Speculoos Backdoor to Target Organizations Globally

Molerats Delivers Spark Backdoor to Government and Telecommunications Organizations

Actors Still Exploiting SharePoint Vulnerability to Attack Middle East Government Organizations

xHunt Campaign: New Watering Hole Identified for Credential Harvesting

xHunt Campaign: xHunt Actor’s Cheat Sheet

xHunt Campaign: New PowerShell Backdoor Blocked Through DNS Tunnel Detection

xHunt Campaign: Attacks on Kuwait Shipping and Transportation Organizations

Emissary Panda Attacks Middle East Government SharePoint Servers

Behind the Scenes with OilRig

Aggah Campaign: Bit.ly, BlogSpot, and Pastebin Used for C2 in Large Scale Campaign

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